Excel updated links automatically - help

We have a rather complex system that has been created using excel and uses links to other files spread in several directories.

Today we have noticed that all the file locations have been updated meaning the calculation sheets can not be updated. All the links have been updated in the same way, for example the link should read:

\\FSVR1\DataStore\Folder1\apples.xls

however it now reads:

\\FSVR1\DataStore\datastore\Folder1\apples.xls

The share name seems to have been duplicated. However this has not happened to excel documents that reference an excel document in the same folder.

What I need to understand is why this has happened and any possible resolutions.

It gets even more bizarre.. After doing a restore from backup of several files we see that on one PC the paths are OK and on another PC the paths have the duplication. Same file, accessed the same way, same Excel version.....

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